Once again Seychelles celebrated the Creole Festival - an annual celebration of the island nation's culture and tradition. The 38th edition of the Festival took place in October and activities were organised on Seychelles' three most populated islands - Mahe, Praslin and La Digue. SNA looks at 8 events in the 2023 Creole Festival. Creole Song competition [...]
A replica of the Stone of Possession was unveiled at La Poudriere Lane, Mahe, on Tuesday, November 1 to commemorate 267 years since Captain Nicolas Morphey placed a boulder near the same area to declare Seychelles a French colony. The French were the first to settle on the islands, although they were discovered previously by [...]
Hundreds of injured residents and foreigners escaped Gaza to Egypt on Wednesday, the first evacuations from the war-torn Palestinian territory pounded by Israeli warplanes in retaliation for an unprecedented Hamas attack. The brief glimmer of hope sparked by the temporary opening of the Rafah border crossing was quickly snuffed out as a new strike pulverised [...]
Hundreds of thousands of Afghans living in Pakistan faced detention and deportation on Wednesday, as a government deadline for them to leave sparked a mass exodus. The government has given 1.7 million Afghans it says are living illegally in the country until November 1 to leave voluntarily or be forcibly removed. Thousands joined a snaking [...]
The International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) has expressed its appreciation for the commitment of Seychelles and its participation in many operations combatting a wide array of crimes, said the Minister for Internal Affairs and Immigration, Errol Fonseka, on Tuesday. Fonseka was answering a question in the National Assembly raised by the elected member for the [...]
Israeli troops and Hamas militants engaged Tuesday in "fierce battles" in Gaza, where the dire humanitarian crisis spiralled and tearful Palestinian families scoured rubble in a desperate search for loved ones. Footage from the Israeli military showed tanks and armoured bulldozers churning up bomb-scarred dirt tracks and troops searching shattered buildings for Hamas militants and [...]
King Charles III paid a solemn visit Tuesday to the birthplace of independent Kenya, at the start of a trip clouded by calls for an apology over Britain's bloody colonial past. Although the four-day state visit by Charles and Queen Camilla has been billed as an opportunity to look to the future and build on [...]
For the second year running, Seychelles is hosting the Maritime Rule of Law Exercise (MROLEX) of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The first part of the exercise has ended and participants from Seychelles, Mauritius and Somalia received their certificates on Tuesday. It took place from October 18 to 31 with 32 participants, [...]
The newly accredited British High Commissioner to Seychelles said he wants the United Kingdom to be the island nation's closest partner, particularly in areas like environmental protection. Jeffrey Frank Glekin presented his credentials to President Wavel Ramkalawan at State House on Tuesday. Glekin talked about good governance and expressed his desire to see the civil service modernise. [...]
The Kremlin on Monday blamed "external interference" for an anti-Israel riot that closed an airport in the Muslim-majority region of Dagestan the previous day. The Kremlin announced Putin will gather his top advisers -- including the defence minister and spy chiefs -- later Monday to discuss the "West's attempts to use the events in the [...]
